Sian Norris reports on the new threat to abaortion rights in Ukraine In June this year, the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council put in a public appeal to Ukraine’s RADA to suspend the right to safe and legal abortion across the country, in a move women’s rights activists have warned is a firing shot to a permanent … Continue reading A NEW THREAT TO FREEDOM?
Russia’s cultural genocide in Kharkiv
By Sian Norris On 28 October, at around 9pm, a Russian bomb hit the UNESCO-listed Derzhprom building in the centre of Kharkiv. The futurist skyscraper, completed in 1928, was ripped open by a powerful FAB-500 bomb. An attack on the region earlier that day killed four people. According to reports in the Guardian, the bomb “hit … Continue reading Russia’s cultural genocide in Kharkiv
